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Quotes About Anger

More often than not, we come to understand this only after the crisis has passed. It is at the very moment of anger's emergence that we must recognize its empty nature. That understanding will strip thoughts of their power to build into a stream of obsession and oppression. They cross the mind without leaving a trace, like the trackless flight of a bird through the sky.
~ Matthieu Ricard
N'importe qui peut se mettre en colère. C'est facile. Mais se mettre en colère avec la bonne personne, au bon degré, au bon moment, pour la bonne raison et de la bonne façon Ã¢â'¬â€œ cela n'est pas facile11.
~ Matthieu Ricard
The fury began before she was old enough to give it a name. When she arrived at the hospital, dragged through the door into the red era of soul science, her fury was called hysteria, as if it had nothing to do with her, and she became we. and we became the disease that said we wanted to steal, to falsely accuse, to set things on fire. Fine, let it burn.
~ Unknown
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
~ Maurice Sendak
Pearl Harbor, together with racism soon fuelled by tidings of Japanese savagery, ensured that Americans found it easy to hate their Asian enemy. But from beginning to end, few felt anything like the animosity towards the Germans that came readily to Europeans; it proved hard even to rouse American anger about Hitler's reported persecution of the Jews.
~ Max Hastings
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
~ Maxine Waters
Even impersonal events can be interpreted, and reacted to, as affronts to our self-esteem. The bus we wanted to catch had to be late; it had to go and rain when we had planned to play golf; traffic had to get into a snarl just when we needed to catch the plane. We react with anger, resentment, self-pity, or in other words, unhappiness.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.
~ Maya Angelou
No, you are not because I am going to," Roxbury said darkly, probably still angry about those pesky rumors about his preferences. "How could you deny me that satisfaction?" she asked. "Very well, my dear wife, we shall seek and destroy the Man About Town together," Roxbury agreed. "That's the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to me," Julianna said sweetly, and her husband grinned.
~ Unknown
Anger will give you strength, where fear will make you weak.
~ Unknown
Ne volim tugu, ?ini me zlim, zato se zavaravam bijesom.
~ Meša Selimovi?
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.
~ Meg Cabot
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.
~ Meg Cabot
It was lonely being mad at people.
~ Unknown
Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
~ Meg Rosoff
This was the world they were meant to enter: a world of fuckers.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Most of the time I'm like, 'Why do I have to share a gender with you, you piece of shit?' It's like when you have a bad relative who has the same last name.
~ Meg Wolitzer
The fear all men have that there's something inside us that shifts, and turns. A living thing, once dormant, stirring now, and filled with rage.
~ Megan Abbott
I was so mad when I was younger," she said. "And then you grow up and think you're not that girl anymore. The girl you were at fifteen, sixteen. Angry and nasty. Hungry for love—" "—I guess some girls are like that," Katie said, cooly. "But the thing is, you're always that girl," Hailey said, stepping out of the car. "She never goes away. She's inside you all the time. That girl is forever.
~ Megan Abbott
I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.
~ Megan Hart
I wanted to be angry with him, but since my love for him had burned to ash, I couldn't find anything to mold into fury.
~ Megan Hart
Fuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuu," Keisha said.
~ Megan Hart
she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.
~ Unknown
Oh, Christ. That's exactly the type of thing that warrants a journal burning.
~ Megan McCafferty